Wednesday, 6 August 2014

My namesake.

I have a name doppelganger. No not the whole LocalFlightEast/WMAP
thing. My real name.

It is shared with a Hollywood Actress. She’s not exactly “A” list but
you’ve probably seen some of the films she’s been in and are quite familiar
with the roles she’s played.

The problem isn’t necessarily that we share a name, I mean let’s
face it, I’m never going to be mistaken for a movie star.

The problem lies in the fact that we have very similar Gmail
accounts. They differ by only one letter and a little bit of punctuation. The
latter rendered moot by the way Gmail parses anything before the “@”sign.

I get stuff that is meant for her, emailed to me on a fairly
regular basis. So far the list includes but is not limited to:

Now I’m a nice person. My reaction to all this so far, beyond mild
amusement, has been very responsible. I either ignore them, or if I’m feeling nice
an email to the person in question pointing out their mistake and my guess as
to what email address they should actually use.

At one point, after receiving my third plane ticket from South Western Airlines, I actually emailed the Actress herself, using my best guess at her
email address. Pointing out that she might want to have a word with the person
who books her travel.

I'm mildly irritated by the fact that I'm fairly certain that I got this email address first. I took my Googlemail account while it was still in beta in the UK and you needed an invite. In fact it was "Googlemail"(and still is) because there were legal issues over the use of "gmail" in the UK. GMail belonged to another company. Yes, this was far enough back in the history of the internet that there was some question as to whether Google was supreme overlord of all Interweb based thingies.

So far, and this is the bit that really p!sses me off, not a single person has responded to my helpful emails. Not a single “oops sorry”. Let alone a “Thanks for the heads up.” I’m sure they have me pegged as some crazy celebrity stalker.

For the record I’m not. If I was I would have turned up at LAX on
May 12 at 3:00pm and showed my email and credit card and passport, all matching
the name on the ticket and flown off to Atlanta.

About Me

I once was terrified...... now I don't know what I am.
I started this blog as The World's Most Anxious Person aka WMAP.
I was scared of flying but now, somehow, I managed to get a Private Pilot Licence.
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